Michigan Weather Is Getting Weirder- 5 Things You Thought You’d Never See
Meteorites, earthquakes, and bombogenesis, oh my. Do you think Mother Nature is trying to tell us something? These 5 weird weather-related events are odd things we never thought we'd see in Michigan.
When a meteorite streaked across the sky on January 16, Michiganders freaked out a little. I mean, Michigan weather can be unpredictable, but we're not used to things falling out of the sky. That meteorite is not the strangest phenomenon to hit Michigan; recall these 5 incredibly uncommon weather-related occurrences we almost never see in the Great Lakes State.
sébastien decoret sébastien decoret1Michigan Meteor
Some thought it was lightning, at first. An explosion in the sky in January 2018 was actually a meteor streaking across the Michigan landscape.
Tomislav Zivkovic Tomislav Zivkovic2The Great Earthquake of 2015
O.K., so the earthquake wasn't so mighty, measuring a mere 4.2 on the Richter scale, but most people who felt it on May 2, 2015, remember it because we've never felt anything like it in the Mitten.
Getty Images Getty Images3Bombogenesis
We learned about bombogenesis in October of 2017 as an October storm cause temperatures to plummet and waves to rise as high a 30' driven by 70+ mph winds.
Ig0rZh Ig0rZh4Snow Tornado
It sounds like the latest low-budget Sy-Fy movie but a snow tornado actually developed over Lake Michigan near Traverse City in December of 2017.
Getty Images Getty Images5The Eclipse
Not limited to Michigan and much more pronounced in other parts of the country, an eclipse is still a once-in-a-lifetime weird weather-related event.
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